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Our 12th Birthday

Posted by Barbie on 31/08/2012

September sees us celebrating our 12th birthday, and as such we going to properly organise a meal out. Several people have suggested we attend Las Iguanas, a mexican restaurant in the Arcadian, just around the corner from our regular haunt of The Dragon Inn.

The plan is to meet at the restaurant for about 7pm, and for early arrivals to meet in The Dragon Inn from about 6pm. we'll be booking a table for Wednesday 12th September, but we need to know how many people are likely to be coming. If you'd like to come along, please let Barbie know (on or off the mailing list) so we book a big enough table. Partners and friends alike are welcome too, so feel free to invite them along.

Recently Mark Keating of the Enlightened Perl Organisation created a Google Calendar to specifically encourage local Perl groups to advertise their events and meetings. As we haven't been advertising ourselves with Google Calendars over the last year, I've dusted off the script I used and updated it.

To see the new calendar, and the existing West Midlands tech Events calendar, visit our Events page and click on the links to see the calendars. Or you can click here and see the new calendar. We still have an ICS file download available to keep up to date with just the Birmingham.pm events and meetings.

Technical Meeting for May 2012

Posted by Barbie on 17/05/2012

This month we have several talks on offer, including one from a guest speaker. We'll be featuring a selection of topics covering RabbitMQ, Jenkins and Command Line Application building. Hopefully something there to interest everyone.

As always, all are welcome, and we'll be meeting in the Sack Of Potatoes from about 6pm, then mving onto the Birmingham Aston Science Park for a 7.30pm start with the talks.

Hope to see you there.

Technical Meeting Update

Posted by Barbie on 22/11/2011

This month, in fact this Wednesday, we have another set of talks for the technical meeting. Both Colin and JJ have offered to present some short talks for us, and I hope we'll have time to review a video from a YAPC or Perl Workshop talk too. If you in or around Birmingham, feel free to come along and join us. All our meetings are free, and all are welcome.

From now we'll be retuyrning to a bi-monthly technical meeting schedule, with meetings being either talk/video presentations or a hackathon. We'll let you know in advance which is which. If you would like to present a talk next year, please get in touch and we'll see what we can schedule.

Our 11th Birthday Meeting

Posted by Barbie on 14/09/2011

This year Birmingham Perl Mongers are celebrating their eleventh year. If you're in or near Birmingham tonight, we will be at The Dragon Inn on Hurst Street (near the Arcardian, Glee Club and Hippodrome Theatre) from about 6pm. Please come along and help us raise a glass to everyone who has been a part of our little corner of Perl.

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- Please note that the social and technical meeting dates i ... moreHappy 9th Birthday
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- As per usual, Birmingham.pm will be inattendance at YAPC::E ... moreQA Hackathon Reviews
- After several months of planning, the 2009 QA Hackathon finall ... moreJavascript at the March Tech Meet
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- Once again the time has come around for the Google S ... moreYAPC Surveys Online
- Since YAPC::Europe in 2006, when Birmingham hosted the annual e ... moreFeb Tech Talks Uploaded
- The presentations given by Brian and Barbie at February' ... moreQA Hackathon
- As some may be aware Birmingham Perl Mongers are organising the 2009 Q ... moreWe're Also On Facebook
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- For those familiar with the professional networking site, Linked ... moreNew Inn for October
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- Following an motion passed at the AGM in January, as of Octo ... moreVenue Change for Tech Meet
- Unfortunately it seems all our regular haunts for techni ... moreOctober Guest Visit
- In response to our frequent visits to MiltonKeynes.pm this year ... moreAugust Technical Meeting - Cancelled
- Unfortunately our technical meeting is again s ... moreSpecial Emergency Social
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- From Monday 31st March to Wednesday 2nd April, the annual ... more2008 Birmingham Perl Mongers World Tour
- Following our successful trips over the las ... moreChristmas Bash Photos
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- Well YAPC::Europe::2007 went down extremely well ... moreWorld Tour - Second Leg
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- Birmingham.pm World Tour 2007 - Wolves LUG - 6th June ... moreApologies
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- Birmingham.pm World Tour 2007 - Malvern LUG - 1st Ma ... moreBWT - Wolves LUG Date
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About Birmingham.pm

We are one of the UK's largest Perl user groups, representing Birmingham UK to the international
Perl community since 2000. We hold monthly social and technical presentations, and several of our
members are now regular attendees and speakers at the YAPC::Europe Perl Conferences.